Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome

Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant.

The Firefox maker last week voiced opposition to Google's plans to add AI-based APIs to Chrome, though Google has already expressed its intention to ship some of these features.

Google has proposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow web developers to write web applications or browser extensions that call a local version of Google's Gemini Nano model, which users can download and run in the browser on supported desktop and laptop machines.

Google has already made some of these AI-based APIs available and continues work on others. The APIs include:

• The Translator API, for on-demand translation.
• The Language Detector API, for detecting the language of input text.
• The Summarizer API, for summarizing text.
• The Writer ...